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The Moon is femine, nocturnal, cold, moist, and phleg matic. Her influence, in itself, is neither fortunate nor unfortunate; but as she happens to fall in with the configurations of the other planets, and is then either malevolent or otherwise, as those aspects happen to be. And, under these circumstances, she becomes the most powerful of all the heavenly bodies in her operations, by reason of her proximity to the Earth, and the swifness of her motion, by which she receives and transmits to us the light and influence of all the superiors, by her configurations with them, When she has rule in a nativity, she produces a full stature, with fair and pale complexion; round face, grey eyes, lowering brow, very hairy; short arms, thick hands and feet, smooth body, inclined to be corpulent and phlegmatic. If she be impeded by the Sun at the time of birth, she leaves a blemish on or near the eye; if in succedant houses, the blemish will be near the eye; but if unfortunate in angles, and with nebulous fixed stars, the blemish will fall in the eye, and will affect the sight. If she be well placed, or dignified at the nativity, the native will be of soft, engaging manners and disposition; a lover of the polite arts, and of an ingenious imagination; fond of novelties, and given to travelling or rambling about the country; unstable, and providing only for the present time, careless of futurity, timorous, prodigal, and easily affrighted, but loving peace, and desiring to live free from the cares and anxieties of the world. If the native be brought up to a mechanical employment, he will be frequently tampering with a variety of different trades, but pursuing none of them long together. If the Moon be unfortunate at the birth, the native will then be slothful, indolent, and of no forecast; improvident, given to a drunken, dissorderly, and beggarly life; hating labour, or any kind of business or employment. When oriental, she inclineth more to corpulence; but when occidental, rather lean, awkward, and ill formed.

Diseases under the Moon.-The palsy, cholic, complaints of the bowels, the stone and gravel, overflowings or obstructions of the terms, dropsy, fluxes, and dysentery; all cold and rheumatic complaints, worms in the belly, disorders of the eyes, surfeits, coughs, convulsions, falling-sickness, king's evil, imposthumes, small-pox, lethargy, measles, phrenzies, apoplexies, vertigo, lunacy, and all crude humours in any part of the body. In conception, she rules the seventh month; and governs the brain, the stomach, bowels, bladder, the left eye in man, and right eye in woman, and the whole expulsive faculty.

Herbs and Plants, over which the Moon holds dominion, are as follow, viz.-Colewort, lily, duck's-meat, poppies, moon-wort, water-plantane, water-agrimony, water-betony, houseleck, mushroom, endive, moon-herb, willow-tree; also adder's tongue, cabbages, water-flag, waterlily, fleur-de-luce, lettuce, fluellin, loose-strife, mouseear, orpine, purslane, privet, rattlegrass, turnips, white roses, white and burnt saxifrage, wall-flowers, hyssop, cucumbers, finseed, rape-seed, and all such herbs as turn towards the Moon, and increase and decrease with her; the palm-tree, which sends forth a twig every time the Moon rises, and all trees and plants that sympathize with her; and are replete with juice, and abound with moisture,

In gathering herbs under the Moon's dominion, attention is to be paid to the time when she is ruling, and well fortified and angular; and irradicated by the sextile or trine of the Sun, or Jupiter, or Venus, or in bodily union with the benefics.

Stones and Metals.-All stones and metals that are white and green, the marcasite, the crystal, the selenite, and'all soft stones: silver and all hard white metals are under the dominion of the Moon; also colours, white, pale green, and pale yellow.

Animals, under the government of the Moon, are all

amphibious animals; and all that sympathize with her, as the camelion, cat, mice, the civet-cat, rats, hind, goat, baboon, panther, frog, dog, hog, &c. The fishes over which she rules, are the tortoise, eel, crab, cockle, oyster, muscle, echeneis, and all kinds of shell-fish, especially the selurus, remarkable for the increase and decrease of its eyes, according to the course of the Moon.

The birds, under her dominion, are the night-owl, moonhen, bat, night-raven, swan, duck, diver-dapper, goose, and all kinds of water fowls.

Weather and Winds.-The Moon influences the weather according to her aspects to the Sun and planets; if configurated with Saturn, she causes, cold, moist, and cloudy weather; if with Mars, winds, a lowering and angry sky, and sudden tempests; with Jupiter, a tepid, genial, salubrious, and temperate air; with Venus, warm, gentle, and productive showers; with Mercury, blusterous gales, with rain; with the Sun, she varies the state of the weather according to the season of the year. But in all cases, that wonderful and unavoidable commixture of influence must be duly observed; nor are the fixed stars, with which she may be, or to which she approximates, to be omitted.-Note, likewise, that the planet or planets to which she applies, either by body or aspect, indicate the nature of the wind.

Signs and Triplicity.-Of the celestial signs-Cancer is only appropriated to the Moon. She holds dominion over the earthly triplicity by night, viz. Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn. The Moon is considered to be in friendship with Jupiter, Sol, Venus, and Mercury; but Saturn and Mars are inimical to her; she is, also, said to rule Monday and Thursday nights.

Regions.-The Moon claims government over Holland, Flanders, Denmark, Zealand, Nuremberg, and North America.

Years.-The Moon's greatest year is 320; her great is 108; her mean is 66; and her least year is 25,

As we have stated, when describing the Sun as hyleg, that, without all exception, Sol claims precedence, whenever situated in prorogatary places; in being situated as hyleg, or, as Placidus expresses it, the moderator of life; so the Moon, when the Sun is not so qualified and constituted, provided she is situated in prorogatory places, is to be preferred as the moderator of life, or hyleg. In addition to these remarks, the Moon in all cases is to be particularly noticed, for whether she has dominion of the horoscope or not, her favourable or unfavourable position, in the genesis, claims the most attentive consideration, paramount to all the planets. What does it avail in point of that noble and and generous soul, to be so much desired, if Saturn disposes of the Moon, though Sagittarius ascends, and Jupiter is enthroned therein, grand with the smiles of plenty and abundance?

It is a lamentable circumstance, when the Moon is wholly unaspected by Mercury, (you, who will not believe starry influence, would, in this very single observation, find irresistible truth,) it would not be too tedious to look at the radical position of the planets, either at your own birth or your children, or any other person; and, without fatiguing yourselves with abstruse matters, if you would just see how Mercury and the Moon were affected; and just so, my good friends, you would find the quantum of mental ability. Perhaps, you may be looking at your own nativities, if you observe the Moon in conjunction, sextile, trine, quintile, biquintile, or in parallel with Mercury, you may flatter yourselves with mental capacities. So you may, if she is in square, or opposition, or semi-square, or sesqui-quadrate with Mercury; then, though I should allow you to be clever, but not very tender to my failings, or my simplicity. Prolixity is tiresome; but, when the Moon is quite unaspected by Mercury, it is the most sorry position; the mental soil is but poor-it is as well to know it; because we thereby avoid painful disappointment-to labour in vain is silly.

But you say Jupiter befriends the Moon-yes, that is something for those who value the glittering ore in preference to intellects but to the point. The Moon in conjunction, or good aspect, with Mercury, promises mental capacities, tending to fair and laudable deeds, as far as can be expected from so frail a creature as man, or a world so full of sorrow and injustice. If she be in evil configurations with Mercury, can you expect any good?-Yet be assured of abilities. When she is quite void of all familiarity, make the best you can of your poor lot: by no means venture to be a Junius or a Johnson. The planets, by which Mercury is disposed or beheld, must not be forgot, for you must know commixture is the grand chain that communicates the planetary influences; so, that if Mercury is beheld by Jupiter, you will be of a jovial, generous nature; if by Saturn, you cannot help it, if the world call you niggardly; if by Mars, you are very well, only you are too passionate; if by Venus, you would be attentive to business; but you cannot help admiring the ladies, sports, and music.—

Such is man's fate on Nature's grand design,

Inwrapt in mental gloom, or blest with light divine!

Persons described by the Moon in each of the Twelve Signs.

THE Moon in Aries describes a person of an indifferent stature, a round face, light brown or flaxen hair, reasonably corpulent or fleshy, and a moderately good complexion; in disposition, mutable, rash and passionate, ambitious of honour, and of an aspiring propensity; but rarely fortunate; or, at least, not for any length of time; subject to reverses and many mutations.

The Moon in Taurus designates a well composed body, of a middle stature, but rather short; corpulent and strong person, complexion not clear, brown or black hair, gentle and obliging disposition, and of serious deportment; in actions, just and correct; gaining, generally, respect and es

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